Elon Musk Has Decided To Pick A Fight With Meta….Why?

I swear. Elon Musk really just can’t keep himself out of trouble. His latest self inflicted gunshot wound to the foot came with this Tweet:

WhatsApp cannot be trusted https://t.co/3gdNxZOLLy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023

Okay. So Elon has just picked a fight with Meta over WhatsApp. Which is only the most popular messaging app on the planet. Yeah. And he didn’t stop there:

Yeah.

Or that WhatsApp founders left Meta/Facebook in disgust, started #deletefacebook campaign & made major contributions to building Signal.

What they learned about Facebook & changes to WhatsApp obviously disturbed them greatly.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023

If he’s just saying stuff and not offering up proof of what he’s saying, it will get him in trouble. As in lawsuit kind of trouble. Meanwhile WhatsApp responded to this:

Users have full control over their mic settings

Once granted permission, WhatsApp only accesses the mic when a user is making a call or recording a voice note or video – and even then, these communications are protected by end-to-end encryption so WhatsApp cannot hear them
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) May 9, 2023

As for Google, they haven’t responded to this as far as I can tell. Which I expect that they are going to respond at some point seeing as Meta just threw them under the bus. But really, why does Elon do this sort of thing again and again? Does Elon not have better things to do than to needlessly stir the pot the way he does. Like, I don’t know, make Twitter less of a train wreck next to a dumpster fire? Just asking.

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May 10, 2023 at 9:19 am

[…] DM’s were coming, the voice and video chat thing is new. I wonder if that’s why he was trashing WhatsApp yesterday? Seeing how he operates, that’s a distinct possibility. Let’s see if he keeps the […]

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